Heck, I reckon you wouldn’t even be human beins if you didn’t have some purty strong personal feelings about nukular combat.

Matthew Yglesias and Hesiod address Insty’s rhetorical question today asking whether France ever called Roosevelt a cowboy seeing as he said, “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” The article Insty quotes from, in which the phrase is approvingly cited, also notes that Roosevelt wrote the speech himself.

Is it at all possible that the French call Bush a cowboy not because of his (well-written Michael Gerson) speeches but because of the puerile “Bonanza” babble that bursts from his pie-hole whenever they let him speak extemporaneously?

How about some of these greatest hits?

”I can hear you. And the rest of the nation can hear you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”

“I want justice. There’s an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, ‘wanted dead or alive.'”

He’s not in charge of Afghanistan anymore. He’s not the parasite that’s invaded the host. … Now, he’s maybe in control of a cave. He’s on the run. We’re going to get him running and keep him running and bring him to justice.”

“We will find those who did it, we will smoke ’em out of their holes, we will get them running, and we will bring them to justice.”

“As long as there is al-Qaeda influence anywhere, we will help the host countries rout ’em out and bring ’em to justice,”

You just have to wonder where in the hell those damned cheese eaters get their ridiculous ideas…